prentice

Example Sentences

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Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, I'm clined to think such words as fulgent, prentice, jangled and pression are Bare Roots rather than Lost Positives.

From Time Magazine Archive

The smith’s prentice jumped backward and hit a table, knocking it over and almost falling to the ground himself.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Such practices, however, she kept from her young prentice, and as far as she was able she taught him honest craft.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

That spring Ged saw little of either Vetch or Jasper, for they being sorcerers studied now with the Master Patterner in the secrecy of the Immanent Grove, where no prentice might set foot.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin